A text editor is a program that allows for editing of plain text files. Unlike a full fledged word processor, text editors generally do not add formatting, though many of them have features such as macro, and syntax highlighting
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System-wide auto-complete word list syncing/integration?
I've been thinking that convenient auto-completion is my must-have feature of the text editors and word processors that I use. I wonder if anyone knows of a program or library that implements a ...
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Compile C/C++ on Chrome OS
with the release of the newest Chromebook and Chromebox (where the latter is an interesting choice for a family PC for people who don't need apps like photoshop etc.), I wanted to check out a ...
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How do I modify a literate haskell script to contain unicode characters?
I would like to modify a .lhs file currently written in plain text. For example, -> would be replaced by → in the .lhs file. I am aware that for display purposes, many text editors can replace these ...
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How to replace one line to two lines or more on a text file using the “find and replace mode”?
Right now I'm developing a script with vbscript and I need to find one specific line(with a lot of occurrences) on a 5k lines source code and replace it to two new code lines(1 line to 2 lines ...
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looking for an alternative to refile in orgmode for emacs
In emacs/orgmode there is something called refile.
you select text, hit refile and you get a list of your outline headlines, select one and your text goes there.
Can I achieve something like this in ...
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TextMate - Recover unsaved files
I was stupid and didn't save 2 textmate documents I was working on. Then my computer froze and I had to restart it. Is there any way to get them back? Is there an autosave file somewhere?
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Transparent background in Notepad++?
Is there a way to make the background of Notepad++ text editor transparent like Eclipse?
Perhaps, there is a plugin which does this job.
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Freeware text editor with column markers
I am looking for a freeware text editor that allows to set multiple column numbers (as opposed to a single end-of-the-line marker).
Crimson Editor has such feature but the number of markers is ...
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Text editors with encryption plugins?
I am looking for a text editor which supports openssl encryption as a plugin. So, instead of manually:
decrypt a file in shell
edit it in the text editor
encrypt the file in shell
Hopefully, the ...
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editing PDFs (find and replace ' ')
What method/program could I use to perform a find and replace to turn ' ' into ' ' in a PDF file?
I can use either linux or windows solution.
EDIT:
The addon for OpenOffice Draw to access ...
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Highlight a column in Rubymine
I recently had a need to highlight the very first column of a file from the first line to the end line.
In Vim, I'd do gg, ^,Ctrl+V, Shift+G,K` to hightlight the first column of the whole file.
The ...
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visual scrollbar plugin eclipse
I'm looking for visual scroll bar for eclipse, something like RockScroll
Does anyone knows one?
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unable to get macros in notepad++ newer version
I am using notepad++ 5.9x, And i currently installed notepad 6.0. But i am unable to see my customized settings in the newer version. (I have not uninstalled the previous version, I downloaded 7zip ...
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How to make text editors respect read-only file permissions as root?
I just discovered that nano, KWrite and Kate all silently overwrite read-only files when editing as root -- even if the file permissions are 400 (-r--------). It also doesn't matter if root is the ...
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In Notepad ++, how do I make it split long lines in several rows?
I usually use Notepad ++ for coding, but recently I started doing some writing in it as well. Writing usually implies long paragraphs with no line breaks, and those are displayed in one row, which is ...
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What is emacs? What makes it so popular? [closed]
What is EMACS ? I only know that it is some kind of text-editor, but what makes them it popular? How it different from the default text editor in windows which is notepad ? I read about it on ...
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how to synchronize text substitution between apps on OSX?
For text editing, I use nvALT and Emacs, and Microsoft Word when I have to. I've entered a lot of OSX Text Substitution entries through System Preferences > Language & Text > Text. So for instance ...
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Is there a way to do rich text formatting with regexes?
I'm trying to edit a large public domain text for publication. One of the things I have to do is make each paragraph's heading bold. Since the heading always begins with an open-paren and ends with a ...
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What program/text editor can i use [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Find and Replace using different keywords
Im trying to find and replace some stuff,
i need to find and replace using the following terms in one file: (actually i need ...
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Text processor combining the pros of TeX and CSS
I am about to write documentation for an application I have finished. I'd like it to be both cohesive (as in TeX), and easy to style (as in HTML/CSS).
I'd rather not use TeX, it doesn't appeal to me ...
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Which editor can I use to create a nested hierarchy?
I'm using OpenOffice (don't have Microsoft Office). I'm designing an application and I want to create a hierarchy similar to what the image below shows.
There can be several nested levels of ...
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Bash Loops and Text Editors
I've got a handful of servers which have a log file I'd like to monitor. Because the project is new and most of the errors so far have been unique, I'd like to monitor these logs manually for a while. ...
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Using MS Word as a code editor
As this is an editor question.. this has high risk of becoming a flame war. Please, if you're compelled say "real programmers use Vim" or Emacs or whatever, turn away now.
60% of the time I "write" ...
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`^M` in many lines in source code files. How can I remove them?
Someone recently sent me a couple of .cpp source code files. On opening the files with GNU Emacs or GVIM, I found them to have a weird character ^M near the ending of every line.
Here is a ...
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Is there a way to start vim in read only mode
I use /bin/view as it is a safe way to view text files and not have accidental changes persist once I am finished.
/bin/view seams to be lack features that normal vim has. Is there a way to start ...
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Syntax based color scheme based on programming language code [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I easily highlight the syntax of PHP code in Word?
There are many text editors that handle programming code quite well, given the extension of the file. For ...
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Plugin for Notepad++ 5.8.6 to list bookmarks of current file
Is there a plug-in for Notepad++ 5.8.6 (the last version before the huge ugly Find dialog!) to list all bookmarks set for current tab in a dockable window?
The user should be able to jump to any ...
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Toggle between column selection and regular selection in Sublime Text 2
In Textmate, I can make a regular multiline selection using the keyboard and switch to column selection mode by pressing the alt (⌥) key.
I have not found a similar way of doing this in Sublime Text ...
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Sublime Text package similar to NppExec?
Anybody know of a package for Sublime Text 2 that will let me execute a shell command, save shell commands, run the currently-open file?
I miss the utility of NppExec from Notepad++, in which I would ...
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Eclipse lost line numbers
My eclipse no longer shows line numbers, its configured to do and it did before
(I believe it became like this after I moved its application folder, mac osx)
The settings read that it's supposed ...
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how to do a vim search inverse search for all lines with out text
with grep I can do a grep -v "my search" to get all the lines with out "my search"
with sed I can
sed '/baz/!s/foo/bar/g' to find replace text on lines with out baz
Is there a way to do the same ...
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How to fix vim textwidth during editing?
When editing files that I limit in my .vimrc to tw=80, when I come back to edit them later, the line-lengths end up all over the place. e.g.
lets say for the sake of argument that this line hits 80 ...
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What are the unique features of notepad++? have any? [closed]
Lots of sites mentions Notepad++ as THE BEST general purpose text editor and the reasons that normally are exposed are funny because almost every decent editor has these features:
Syntax ...
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Windows Notepad and Notepad++ show newlines in same file differently
I created a Perl script which gets some data and inserts it line by line to a text file. When I open that file with Notepad++, it appears to have an empty line separation between each two lines of ...
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What text editor has these capabilities? [closed]
I'm looking for a text editor that has the following capabilities:
Create multiple windows, to edit more than one file.
Split vertical and horizontal any window, to edit different places of the ...
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text editor with visual history heatmap
This is more of a wish, but does anyone know of a text editor / editor plugin that visually shows you where you've been editing last?
The problem I'm trying to solve is when coding in large projects, ...
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Sublime Text 2 doesn't render text properly if I start the application with my Acer display attached
I'm using a Macbook Air. If I start Sublime Text with no external displays and then attach the display everything looks fine.
But, if I attach the display first and then start Sublime Text the text ...
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Compact CSS code in Espresso
I like my CSS code each class / id in one single line, I hate how Espresso automatically adds 2 new lines after each curly bracket { I open while writing CSS. IS it possible to turn this off?
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Modifiying a file in editor automatically
I'm trying to change a ppt to beamer. Here's the strategy I'm following:
Copy all bullets from the ppt (open office)
Paste it in an editor (gedit?)
Hit save. (Here, it should call the sed script ...
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HTML editor with IDE features
There is a ton of questions about free HTML editors for Windows. I have a couple of specific requirements, which seem ubiquitous to me, yet, I can't seem to find any that don't suck.
So here is what ...
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Opening a file from Terminal to a new window of TextWrangler
I'm able to open a file form Terminal with
open -b com.barebones.textwrangler whicheverfile
The problem is if any window of Textwrangler window is already is open, this file is open in that window. ...
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Opening a big file [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a rather large log file on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. It's a couple gigabytes, but notepad, wordpad, ...
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Lightweight source code beautifier [closed]
I am looking for a lightweight PHP prettyprint (beautification) tool. In Netbeans, I can Right-click and select Format to format source code. Is there a text editor with the same capability?
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Replacement for edit.exe in 64-bit Windows cmd/powershell
Is there a replacement for the in window editor of 16/32 bit versions of windows? Would be nice to have, though of course there are many workarounds to this problem.
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Where does ms-dos editor store settings?
Where does ms-dos editor (edit) store settings in win xp?
Also, would these settings be easily transferrable to another OS, like win 7 or ms-dos?
I think it's edit.ini.
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How do you use sftp with gedit on Ubuntu?
Do you need a plugin to edit sftp files on a remote server with gedit? Which one works best?
What about (non-secure) ftp?
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Can I prevent textmate from auto adding semicolons after colons?
Is there a way to prevent textmate from auto-typing a ; after every : when editing CSS?
I still want it to auto add closing brackets and curly braces. Just not semi-colons.
I've seen the option in ...
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Free form selection in text editor
I regularly need to edit and transform lot of texts. So my dream is to select parts of text in other way (not only inline)
This is a example:
I would like to be able to select for example the red ...
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How can I config sublime text excute javascript with Mozilla Rhino
I want to excute javascript file without a browser. I found Mozila Rhino, but I wonder that how can I config sublime text or another text editor run my .js file directly (i.e without run command ...
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Text viewer/editor to show text in columns to maximise visible content on a single screen?
Hopefully this image illustrates what I'm after to help view a long log file:
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Preferably a text editor, but any suggestions welcome.
